A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.

Fear, left unchecked, can spread like a virus.

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Authority is quite degrading.

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.